Huang Liji was about to say something, but Zhu Youzhen once again pulled the topic back to the data in the cabinet report, "Some of the data that the imperial court asks the counties to report are honest, and whatever the imperial court asks him, he answers."

Some people are perfunctory and copy the numbers in the yellow book. Others regard the orders of the imperial court as air, and they completely ignore them, and they do not even hear a response. Some people even regarded the imperial court as fools, and casually falsified a piece of data and reported it to the imperial court.

This is simply unreasonable, the court sent them to the place to manage the place for my Ming Dynasty, not for the local gentry to be slaves.

Mr. Xu and Mr. Huang, the two of you should discuss and come up with a punishment method for these local officials who have no court and intend to oppose the central government.

I thought that officials who obeyed the orders of the imperial court should be promoted first, and those officials who took the orders of the imperial court as child's play should be removed from their posts. Of course, the imperial court could not act without warning, so that the local officials would set a target for the dismissal of personnel, and 5% of the number of local officials would be exempted. ”

Huang Liji was suddenly shocked, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, falsifying data to fool the court is indeed punishable, but this is only the sin of the parties, how can you beat the board of all officials?" I'm afraid this will cause criticism in the world.

Besides, now that the local government of our Daming Dynasty has carried out reforms, the vacancies in this official position have exceeded the number of officials waiting to be elected, and now that the 5% of officials are dismissed so directly, I am afraid that many local yamen will not be able to find anyone to do things. ”

Several cabinet ministers also echoed Huang Liji's statement, but Zhu Youzhen said unmoved: "Will local officials know that there is no problem with these reported data?"

Knowing that there was a problem, they sent it with their eyes closed, doesn't it mean that they are afraid of local gentry and colleagues, even more so than the imperial court?

They are officials of the court and hold the court's money, but they put the so-called human feelings and sophistication above the majesty of the court. I'm going to see what these local gentry and local officials are trying to do.

The investigation team jointly dispatched by Jinyiwei, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Criminal Department has found a lot of evidence that this popular uprising was not a rebellion of the people, but a deliberate incitement of some gentry and wealthy families to incite the people to revolt in order to resist the grain policy of the imperial court.

These gentlemen and wealthy families keep saying that they are loyal and filial sons, and I haven't asked them to go to the battlefield yet, they are already thinking about stabbing their father.

These local officials, who disobey the orders of the imperial court, are the rotten sores on my body, and if you want to cure the rotten sores, you have to pick it up, drain the pus, and it will naturally be better. This is why long pain is better than short pain.

The 5% dismissal quota allows the provinces to recommend the list internally first, and then the imperial court sends someone to review it, and if the 5% quota is not reached, the provincial officials will be exempted from the beginning until the number is sufficient.

Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Beizhili are not included this time.

As for the problem of the insufficient number of candidates for officials, the ratio will be increased twice next year and the year after, and only the top 100 candidates in each province will be examined. Those who pass the examination will enter Yenching University for a six-month preparatory official study and will be eligible for conferring official qualifications. ”

Huang Liji's heart moved, and he asked, "So the students who originally studied at Yenching University, can they also participate in the small competition?" ”

Zhu Youzhen said reluctantly and lightly: "As long as they get the ** book awarded by the university, they can participate in the small competition." The duration of Yenching University's study is 2-3 years, and they can't participate in these two times. ”

Regarding Chongzhen's explanation, Huang Liji suddenly fell silent. Most of the current students at Yenching University are Beidi scholars. Judging from the current situation, the majority of students recruited by this university in the future will be students from the north.

If the graduates of Yenching University can enter the official career, then the power of the northern officials will inevitably rise, which is certainly a good thing for him and his family.

In the future, even if he retires from the post of first assistant, those officials from the north will definitely talk about his benefits, and will not allow the southern officials to slander his reputation.

Huang Liji glanced at his colleagues and found that these colleagues had not yet understood the emperor's intentions, but they were a little concerned about the number of candidate officials that had been increased by the two small ratios.

Qian Qianyi heard the news, and immediately became a little excited, at the beginning of the year, Enke changed the rules of the examination, which caused many southern scholars to lose in the imperial examination, which made them complain in private.

Now if he spreads the news and puts some gold on his face, he will not be able to win the hearts of many Jiangnan scholars.

Chongzhen's proposal was finally approved by the cabinet, and since they wanted to curry favor with the scholars of the world, they naturally no longer objected to the emperor's move to let people vacate their positions. After all, the emperor did not let them be evildoers, and personally named and dismissed officials, but only asked local officials to recommend laid-off candidates.

After discussing for a morning, Zhu Youzhen said a little exhausted: "I think the meeting is here, if you have something to do, you might as well hand the fold into the palace again." ”

Before his words fell, Wu Chunfu couldn't wait to say: "Your Majesty, there is something I want to ask Your Majesty to decide." ”

Zhu Youzhen straightened his sleeves, then looked at him and asked slowly, "Wu Shangshu has something to do, please say." ”

Wu Chunfu cleared his throat, took out a fold from in front of him, and then got up and handed it to Wang Chengen, who came over, and said: "Please control the flood disasters in the plains of southern Lunan and northern Jiangsu, if the Yishu Surashui system here can be cured and no longer flooded every year, then tens of millions of acres of fertile land can be added to this place."

If the plains of southern Lunan and northern Jiangsu can be greatly controlled, then the grain that Gyeonggi lacks will no longer have to be transported from the south, and the problem of the lack of water in the canal leading to the decline in transportation capacity will be solved..."

Wu Chunfu was quite excited to explain to the emperor what a grand plan he proposed.

The plan includes the Yimeng Mountains in the north, the Yellow Sea in the east, Xuzhou in the west, and the Yellow River and Huaihe River in the south, involving nearly 80 counties in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Henan provinces.

The topography of this area is high in the west and low in the east, high in the north and low in the south, and gradually decreases from north to west to south, gradually transitioning from low mountains and hills to inclined alluvial plains and coastal plains.

The landforms in the region can be divided into four categories: plains, middle and high mountains, low mountains and hills. The area of mountainous and hilly areas accounts for 3 percent, and the area of plain areas accounts for 7 percent.

The middle and high mountainous areas in the north and central regions are the birthplaces of the Yi, Shu and Si rivers, and once the rainy season arrives, the water flow accumulation effect in the mountainous areas will make the lower reaches of the Yi, Shu and Si rivers flood.

In addition, when the Yellow River floods, in order to keep the passage of the Grand Canal, the water of the Yellow River will also be diverted to this area.

"Yizhou Mansion Chronicle" records that in the river basin, "three days of drought will become dry water, and one day's rain and fertile fields will go with the sand and stones". After the Yellow River was recaptured, floods in the lower reaches of the river occurred once every two years on average.

If you want to remediate the Si River, you must first remediate the two rivers of Yi and Shu, both of which originate in the Yimeng Mountains and are typical mountain torrent rivers.

Wu Chunfu's plan was to divert the Shu River into the sea in advance and give up the lower reaches of the Shu River to the Yi River. In this way, the two rivers will no longer harm the northern Jiangsu Plain, but can be used as a source of water for irrigation.

It is 500 miles from the old Shuhe Daguanzhuang to the sea at the mouth of the Linhongkou, but Daguanzhuang is only 150 miles away from the Dasha River that enters the sea in the east. To the east of Omiyaso is a low hill that can be used as a natural embankment.

After listening to it for a long time, Zhang Ruitu suddenly smiled and said: "These data are so detailed, shouldn't they be thought up by Da Sikong for nothing?" ”

Wu Chunfu, who had just returned to the river, suddenly turned red, he stared at Zhang Ruitu fiercely, and when he was about to explain to Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said: "This plan is good, but it is better to send engineering surveyors down to conduct field surveys on the two rivers."

Dasikong, you are in charge of this matter, it is best to complete the survey before the spring of next year, so that you can start working next year, can the household department allocate a sum of money for the survey of the Ministry of Industry? ”

Seeing Guo Yunhou nodding to Chongzhen, Wu Chunfu suddenly felt that his thoughts had been cleared, and the anger that Zhang Ruitu wanted to stumble on him just now disappeared.

In charge of the Ministry of Works, because he did not find out Chongzhen's thoughts, so he has always been relatively low-key, except for the construction of the first emperor's mausoleum, just try his best to cooperate with the palace to change the craftsman management system.

After living in hiatus for nearly a year, he finally understood that under the current cabinet system, it is true that he can keep his position by gaining the favor of the emperor, but if he wants to gain power, he must have a project in his hand.

He hesitated before, but the Haihe River control project was taken away by Jiang Dejing, and the right-hand waiter of the Ministry of Works, who had just taken office, simply turned the Dushui Qingzhi Division into his own compound.

Originally, all mining workshops in the world should be under the management of the Ministry of Industry, but he hesitated when the emperor asked for the establishment of a mining bureau, and as a result, the emperor took advantage of the Xishan miners' demonstration case to directly bypass the Ministry of Industry and establish a mining bureau.

And all kinds of new-style workshops are related to the palace, and Wu Chunfu suddenly found that he has become a dispensable person in the Ministry of Industry.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry have even been discussing in private the question of how long he can be the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Wu Chunfu is a little depressed, he is only 58 years old this year, and he is in the prime of life. And he has just entered the cabinet, and he feels that he has a great future, and it will not be a problem to work for more than ten years.

Looking at the flowers in front of him, but someone told him that it was time to get off the boat and go home, how could this make him willing.

After thinking about it, he still had to present a big project to the emperor who was so happy that he would not be marginalized by Chongzhen.

It was also a coincidence that Yin Zixin, a talented man in Fei County, felt the suffering of the people in his hometown every year, and personally traveled all over the Three River Valleys, and then wrote to the imperial court to request water control.

The scholar's grand plan was immediately dismissed as whimsical by officials of the Ministry of Industry and thrown into the wastebasket.

Although he continued to write after that, he still did not get the support of any officials, but it became a joke in the mouths of officials of the Ministry of Industry.

But when Wu Chunfu wanted to work on a big project, this whimsical plan suddenly became his best choice.